Reconfiguration Planning for Heterogeneous Self-Reconfiguring Robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2460-2467

  Fitch, Robert ^a   Butler, Zack ^a   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELF-RECONFIGURING ROBOTS; SLIDING CUBE ROBOTS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MODULAR ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS; THEOREM PROVING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0346148661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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